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Week 2 Night 5 - Columbia Theater

Stately 83-year-old theater, 800 people roaring with laughter - a successful benefit for the Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund. All the comics rocked the house. Perfect, right?
Uh, almost.

Check this out: As MC Auggie Smith begins his closing set, this guy in a suit walks out on stage with a stepladder. Climbs up, and (unamplified, thankfully) shouts "How many Italians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two - one to screw in the bulb and the other to $%&* your mother."

I'm not making this up.

Security hustles him off stage. Auggie, veteran talent that he is, plays it off casually and has a little fun, and All's Right With The World.

Turns out the guy was lurking backstage all night waiting for this opportunity. We thought he was part of the theater staff; they thought he was part of our crew.

Slight other weirdness: 3 ties in the top 5, so we had our first-ever "top 8."